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Matthew Collins 

BSc [Hons] Creative Computing

My name is Matthew Collins and I’m from Finglas in Dublin. I have been using computers from an early age and have always been curious about how software is created. I came to IADT to explore this curiosity. Since then, I have studied PHP, JavaScript, SQL, HTML, and more. When it came to creating and researching a 4th Year Project, I decided to study Data Visualization with particular emphasis on mapping.I have learned how to use the data science language R and how to work with and clean data. I developed a R project called visualizing tourism in Ireland.

This is the dashboard of the application. This map contains information on all of the accommodations, attractions and activities in Ireland. This data was obtained from Failte Ireland and Ordnance Survey Ireland.
This page provides an analysis of visitor trends from countries across the world between 1995 and 2018. Users can choose between a line plot, a bar chart and a dot plot. This data is from The World Bank Organization.
The accommodation map page allows users to view and filter the type of accommodation required and visit the providers website.
Users can view the most and least popular accommodation. A data table includes further details which can be downloaded.
This attractions map allows users to see how many attractions are in a particular area while providing a clustering feature.
This activities map shows a range of filtering options
Users can view the details of the selected location and includes a website link.
This screen recording demonstrates how my web application works.
Irish Tourism Dashboard

The aim of this research project was to develop an interactive data visualization of the tourism market in Ireland. The application displays all accommodations, attractions and activities in Ireland as listed by Failte Ireland. The application was developed in R and R Shiny. The link to my application is ShinyApps.io https://collmatt10.shinyapps.io/IrishTourismDashboard/


Irish Tourism Dashboard Thesis

This project involved conducting research into the history of visualization, spatial data, joining data and mapping of data using R and R Shiny.

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